As this would be a very independent production and not something that would be considered as commercial, I would like to think that someone like MTV or Scuzz music channel would fund and air my 'Rockumentary'.
As MTV has shown films from the likes of Beavis and Butthead who also did rock and metal music videos/mini documentaries I could imagine my Documentary being on a similar wavelength and given a slot on there or a metal music channel such as Kerrang or Scuzz.
Monday, 22 February 2010
Primary and Secondary research.
For my presentation on my film that I will produce I have had to research a lot to find what will be the main content of my film.
I have created a questionnaire that I have proposed that will enable me to gain information and statistics to use in my film.
The questions are as follows:
• What is the question you would like answered most in this ‘Rockumentary’?
• What elements of Rock culture do you think are the most important? Clothing, the music, memorabilia, artwork, live venues/festivals, merchandise or the culture in general? And why?
• Who do you think is the biggest rock icon ever? (Kurt Cobain, Jimi Hendrix, Ozzy Osbourne, Jim Morrison etc.)
• What do you think helps keep rock culture alive today? (open question)
• What subgenre of rock/metal do you think is most popular/scene at the moment? (open question)
My secondary research has come from books, DVD's, CD's and videos on youtube that have given me inspiration for the over
all content of the film.
'Headbangers journey', quotes from various music videos such as Silent Civillian and Steel Panther to give instant impact on the video.
I have created a questionnaire that I have proposed that will enable me to gain information and statistics to use in my film.
The questions are as follows:
• What is the question you would like answered most in this ‘Rockumentary’?
• What elements of Rock culture do you think are the most important? Clothing, the music, memorabilia, artwork, live venues/festivals, merchandise or the culture in general? And why?
• Who do you think is the biggest rock icon ever? (Kurt Cobain, Jimi Hendrix, Ozzy Osbourne, Jim Morrison etc.)
• What do you think helps keep rock culture alive today? (open question)
• What subgenre of rock/metal do you think is most popular/scene at the moment? (open question)
My secondary research has come from books, DVD's, CD's and videos on youtube that have given me inspiration for the over
all content of the film.
'Headbangers journey', quotes from various music videos such as Silent Civillian and Steel Panther to give instant impact on the video.
Visual Style of my Rockumentary.
The visual style of my documentary is very important in the way that people interpret it. The colours used throughout the credits, titles and any artwork will definitely be black white and red as these are the main colours associated with Rock. I have created a mock-up of the style of the logo which is shown above. Names of people who will be interviewed will also come up on screen in this style.
I am hoping to produce a small animated logo as well which will help create the tone and mood of the film.
Questions I want to answer in the rockumentary.
There will be a main question within my documentary that I will focus on however will definitely answer sub-questions that are directly related to the main question.
The main question I will be answering will be "WHAT ELEMENTS DEPICT THE MAIN STEREOTYPES OF ROCK CULTURE"
Other questions that will be answered throughout which are relative will be decided via my primary research by a questionnaire that will help me see which questions would most like to be answered by people who participate in 'rock culture'.
The answers that people give will help me see what people in todays society who are interested in this subject would like to know and find out. I am doing this documentary for research purposes and to try and establish a wider understanding of the lifestyle I lead.
The main question I will be answering will be "WHAT ELEMENTS DEPICT THE MAIN STEREOTYPES OF ROCK CULTURE"
Other questions that will be answered throughout which are relative will be decided via my primary research by a questionnaire that will help me see which questions would most like to be answered by people who participate in 'rock culture'.
The answers that people give will help me see what people in todays society who are interested in this subject would like to know and find out. I am doing this documentary for research purposes and to try and establish a wider understanding of the lifestyle I lead.
My final idea for my short film.
I have finalised my idea for my short film and am definitely going to stick with the idea of producing a 'Rockumentary'.
I have made a proposal which depicts the content, structure and visual style of my Rockumentary in the format of a powerpoint presentation.
I will copy and paste the written content as follows:
For my short film idea I am proposing the production of a ‘Rockumentary’. A ‘Rockumentary’ is a documentary but of the Rock genre, culture, and livelihood. I am hoping within this 3-5 minute documentary to find the answers to a specific question I will propose throughout the film. I am hoping to use a number of filming styles, I want to include standard filming which would be complementary of typical documentary style films however want it be more visually interesting by having short montages of shots associated with the subject with a voiceover and music playing along with it. I want to input stylish credits and titles for each part of it, for instance interviews.
Structure of my ‘Rockumentary’:
Intro: Discuss who I am and what my aim throughout this documentary is. Propose a question and how I will try to answer it. (See question ideas below).
Shots I will possibly include: Interviews with relevant persons. Shots of venues, clubs, pubs, shops to make a montage. Things associated with alternative rock culture and alternative lifestyle. Live bands. Studios. Camden Town.
Credits: Make credits to go with each section that are relevant to ‘Rock’. Distorted and interesting. Possibly made in either After Effects or Motion 4 or Livetype.
Elements to cover throughout the documentary: Artwork, books, CD’s, DVD’s, memorabilia, merchandise, venues for hosting live music.
Possible interviews: Fall Mckenzie- Artist for bands. Dante Bonutto- Band manager, Mina- classic rocker, My Grandad- Drummer.
Other elements to use: Royalty free footage of festivals? Shots of typical Rock n Roll behaviour. Already use interviews I have conducted to be voiceovers etc.
I have made a proposal which depicts the content, structure and visual style of my Rockumentary in the format of a powerpoint presentation.
I will copy and paste the written content as follows:
For my short film idea I am proposing the production of a ‘Rockumentary’. A ‘Rockumentary’ is a documentary but of the Rock genre, culture, and livelihood. I am hoping within this 3-5 minute documentary to find the answers to a specific question I will propose throughout the film. I am hoping to use a number of filming styles, I want to include standard filming which would be complementary of typical documentary style films however want it be more visually interesting by having short montages of shots associated with the subject with a voiceover and music playing along with it. I want to input stylish credits and titles for each part of it, for instance interviews.
Structure of my ‘Rockumentary’:
Intro: Discuss who I am and what my aim throughout this documentary is. Propose a question and how I will try to answer it. (See question ideas below).
Shots I will possibly include: Interviews with relevant persons. Shots of venues, clubs, pubs, shops to make a montage. Things associated with alternative rock culture and alternative lifestyle. Live bands. Studios. Camden Town.
Credits: Make credits to go with each section that are relevant to ‘Rock’. Distorted and interesting. Possibly made in either After Effects or Motion 4 or Livetype.
Elements to cover throughout the documentary: Artwork, books, CD’s, DVD’s, memorabilia, merchandise, venues for hosting live music.
Possible interviews: Fall Mckenzie- Artist for bands. Dante Bonutto- Band manager, Mina- classic rocker, My Grandad- Drummer.
Other elements to use: Royalty free footage of festivals? Shots of typical Rock n Roll behaviour. Already use interviews I have conducted to be voiceovers etc.
Monday, 15 February 2010
Inspiration week- Proposal Ideas.
As aforementioned I have proposed two ideas that were inspired by secrets on a postcard.
However one completely different idea that I gained from a film that was very inspirational to me was the idea of a 'Rockumentary'. I am very interested in Rock culture, rock iconography and in general the whole subject, as this is the industry I want to pursue.
The film in which I watched was 'Heavy Metal- A Headbangers Journey'. It was an american documentary formed by a guy who- like me, is very interested on the whole culture of rock and metal and where it started, and how its progressed into todays society.
I was thinking I could do a mini UK version that researches into all different aspects of Rock and metal alternative culture. Clothing, venues, artists, pubs, artwork etc would all be aspects included in my 'Rockumentary' and I would interview people throughout who are significant to it. I think this would benefit me in many ways and is something I would have never ocnsidered doing until now.
I was quite adament on doing a dark gothic avant-garde film/music video and now I have gained inspiration from another media that has made me really want to do this subject and distribute it virally to inform and entertain people about the way I and the majority of my friends live and why we live that way.
However one completely different idea that I gained from a film that was very inspirational to me was the idea of a 'Rockumentary'. I am very interested in Rock culture, rock iconography and in general the whole subject, as this is the industry I want to pursue.
The film in which I watched was 'Heavy Metal- A Headbangers Journey'. It was an american documentary formed by a guy who- like me, is very interested on the whole culture of rock and metal and where it started, and how its progressed into todays society.
I was thinking I could do a mini UK version that researches into all different aspects of Rock and metal alternative culture. Clothing, venues, artists, pubs, artwork etc would all be aspects included in my 'Rockumentary' and I would interview people throughout who are significant to it. I think this would benefit me in many ways and is something I would have never ocnsidered doing until now.
I was quite adament on doing a dark gothic avant-garde film/music video and now I have gained inspiration from another media that has made me really want to do this subject and distribute it virally to inform and entertain people about the way I and the majority of my friends live and why we live that way.
Inspiration week task 2- Secret postcards.
Within this lesson we had to gain inspiration from postcards in which had other peoples secrets written on them. The secrets had to be turned into a narrative which could possibly be an idea for my short film.
The first secret I got was: "I thought I was in love with him"
This is the idea I formed from this secret:
He stood there in the wedding dress and dramatic make-up, staring at himself in the mirror. He went to drastic lengths to try and turn his unrequited love into mutual feelings. No matter how hard he tried to stand out and conform to what he thought his love wanted, it never seemed to suffice.
Trying to love a straight man and make him see the beauty both on the outside and inside of a male body was excrutiatingly painful. So one day he wiped the make-up off and threw the dress away. He thought he was in love but in fact it was just a fantasy.
The second secret I got was: "All my life people have told me I'm not special....I'm very easy to replace. After 43 years it has finally sunk in. I finally get it"
The ideas I brainstormed from this secret are as follows:
The woman makes a suicide tape and forms ragdoll that resembles her in every way- to resemble that she is easy to replace, in the form of a doll. The doll is placed next to the dead womans body after she commits suicide and has been gagged, and taped up to stop her blood flowing. A needle was beside her. She has seemingly overdosed and made a replacement to take over her life, to prove she unerstood she was easy to replace- the doll.
Both of these ideas above formed very avant-garde dark ideas in my mind for a short film. However the formation of the films were quite difficult in my mind to see myself creating effectively.
The first secret I got was: "I thought I was in love with him"
This is the idea I formed from this secret:
He stood there in the wedding dress and dramatic make-up, staring at himself in the mirror. He went to drastic lengths to try and turn his unrequited love into mutual feelings. No matter how hard he tried to stand out and conform to what he thought his love wanted, it never seemed to suffice.
Trying to love a straight man and make him see the beauty both on the outside and inside of a male body was excrutiatingly painful. So one day he wiped the make-up off and threw the dress away. He thought he was in love but in fact it was just a fantasy.
The second secret I got was: "All my life people have told me I'm not special....I'm very easy to replace. After 43 years it has finally sunk in. I finally get it"
The ideas I brainstormed from this secret are as follows:
The woman makes a suicide tape and forms ragdoll that resembles her in every way- to resemble that she is easy to replace, in the form of a doll. The doll is placed next to the dead womans body after she commits suicide and has been gagged, and taped up to stop her blood flowing. A needle was beside her. She has seemingly overdosed and made a replacement to take over her life, to prove she unerstood she was easy to replace- the doll.
Both of these ideas above formed very avant-garde dark ideas in my mind for a short film. However the formation of the films were quite difficult in my mind to see myself creating effectively.
Inspiration week task 1- Fold over story.
To give myself and the class inspiration about stories that could possibly be used and storylines that will contribute to our short films, we wrote a fold over story and passed it around the class to form a narrative that would be an idea for a short film.
Mine came out as follows:
A man called pedro was a manicurist, a women is called Candy and she is a drag queen. It was a cold night, 10pm on the dot. Ding dong ''Hi love it;s me!'' ''who?''. She woke up and said ''OMG I gave birth to a kitten in my dream...''. The man picks his nose and snot flies everywhere. He then sneezes all over the females chest and exclaims ''phwoar look at the snot on them!''. The next month a shocking discovery was made; they were actually brother and sister. What were they going to tell the children?
I translated this story into one which resembles the Torodov theory with equilibrium, disequilibrium and restoration.
When two opposite characters meet at night, sharing no similarities in personalities, a new era has begun. With the male a manicurist, the female a drag queen, they both had strange dreams. Candy was disturbed during the night by being awoken by a nightmare she had been given birth to a kitten. The next day Candy had even more bad luck because Pedro her partner sneezed all over her chest and snot flew everywhere. They made babies and everything was fine again, but then found out they were brother and sister. This disturbed the family so they broke up and started their lives again.
Mine came out as follows:
A man called pedro was a manicurist, a women is called Candy and she is a drag queen. It was a cold night, 10pm on the dot. Ding dong ''Hi love it;s me!'' ''who?''. She woke up and said ''OMG I gave birth to a kitten in my dream...''. The man picks his nose and snot flies everywhere. He then sneezes all over the females chest and exclaims ''phwoar look at the snot on them!''. The next month a shocking discovery was made; they were actually brother and sister. What were they going to tell the children?
I translated this story into one which resembles the Torodov theory with equilibrium, disequilibrium and restoration.
When two opposite characters meet at night, sharing no similarities in personalities, a new era has begun. With the male a manicurist, the female a drag queen, they both had strange dreams. Candy was disturbed during the night by being awoken by a nightmare she had been given birth to a kitten. The next day Candy had even more bad luck because Pedro her partner sneezed all over her chest and snot flew everywhere. They made babies and everything was fine again, but then found out they were brother and sister. This disturbed the family so they broke up and started their lives again.
Short film- Inspiration week. What is short film?
Within this lesson we listed as many possibilities as to what a short film could be. Here is my list:
- A number of incidents/occurences that happen that collaborate to make a narrative.
- Something with a message that influences the content.
- Structure- beginning, middle, end.
- Myths, hearsay, elaborated as time goes on through different generations.
- Something from the imagination.
- Grandparents- tradition-religion-generations.
- Books, tales, myths;greek, biblical, legends, fables, folktales, fairytales, tribal stories.
- Once upon a time, the end.
- Setting, plot characters.
- Structure; equilibrium, disequilibrium, restoration. Plot.
- Theme/genre.
- Series of events.
- Made to educate, entertain, inform. Popular culture.
- Cave paintings, Eqyptians, illustrations, hyroglyphics.
- Poetry, all differnet types of media.
- How one follows another. 'Kuleshov effect'
- Stories we tell ourselves about ourselves.
- Stories are culturally specific and give us comfort in life.
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